ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2014. Banks that received federal bailout money approved riskier loans and shifted capital toward risky investments, according to a University of Michigan researcher. In a study on risk-taking by banks that received funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Denis Sosyura, assistant professor of finance at the[Read More…]
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New Poll on the Challenges Facing American Women
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink finds that one in three American women lives on or over the brink of poverty Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2014. Maria Shriver, the Center for American Progress, and AARP released the results of a comprehensive new poll that tests attitudes[Read More…]
Study: Student Drug Testing Programs Don’t Work
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 14, 2014. By Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director The imposition of student drug testing programs is not effective in limiting students’ consumption of controlled substances, according to survey data published in the January edition of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. Investigators from Israel and the[Read More…]
The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink
Kristeen Rogers, 23, of Clermont, Florida, a single mother of two girls, Lexi, 4, and Jada, 2, works multiple jobs to pay the bills, put food on the table, and get her girls into daycare. At the end of her shift waitressing at The Mad Melon Cafe Rogers, she sits[Read More…]
Millionaires’ Club: For First Time, Most Lawmakers are Worth $1 Million-Plus
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 10, 2014. For the first time in history, most members of Congress are millionaires, according to a new analysis of personal financial disclosure data by the Center for Responsive Politics. Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or[Read More…]
5 Reasons Congress Must Extend Unemployment Insurance
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 10, 2014. In light of today’s unemployment report, which verified that job growth in the United States remains volatile, the Center for American Progress released an issue brief detailing five reasons why Congress must persist in extending unemployment benefits. According to the new CAP analysis, failing to do[Read More…]
Study: Alcohol, Not Cannabis, Associated With Intimate Partner Violence
Knoxville, TN–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. Men’s consumption of alcohol, but not cannabis, is associated with intimate partner violence, according to survey data published this month in the journal Addictive Behaviors. Investigators at the University of Tennessee and Florida State assessed whether alcohol intoxication and/or cannabis use by college-age men in a[Read More…]
Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Traveling by Car Uses Most Energy
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2014. Fuel economy must improve 57 percent in order for light-duty vehicles to match the current energy efficiency of commercial airline flights, says a University of Michigan researcher. Michael Sivak, a research professor at the U-M Transportation Research Institute, examined recent trends in the amount of energy[Read More…]
Offshore Corporate Profits: The Only Thing ‘Trapped’ Is Tax Revenue
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2014. Trapped offshore profits are neither overseas nor trapped. Rather, they are accounting illusions that provide multinational corporations yet another loophole to skirt taxes, according to a new report released today by the Center for American Progress. The report disproves arguments that claim that there is a large[Read More…]
New Poll on the Legacy of the War on Poverty and American Attitudes About Work, Economic Opportunity, and the Safety Net
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 7, 2014. Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared an “unconditional War on Poverty,” a new poll released on a press call today by Half in Ten and the Center for American Progress finds that Americans strongly believe that poverty is primarily the result of a failed[Read More…]
